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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1365319" data-attributes="member: 1328">1. It can't be racism unless the cat-lover is a cat himself.2. Being a cat-lover don't means thinking cats are better than dogs. It just means loving them. (Not even necessarily more. You can be a cat-lover and a dog-lover too. But you can't say your kin is better than the other and say you're not racist.)"Patriotism" would be prefering their culture to the others (which is normal). But preference don't mean assumption of superiority.Myself, I'm annoyed by two things in what I call the "melnazibonelf syndrom". The first is munchkinism (elves being better at everything), the second is racism (elves thinking they're better at everything).One could think that the second comes from the first, but the problem is, actually, it's kinda the reverse. (Besides, any truely more enlightened civilisation would not fall to racism; for it would know it is sinking to the level of what we pretend to be above.)As Lord Elf from ElfOnlyInn put it (<a href="http://elfonlyinn.keenspace.com/d/20040116.html" target="_blank">© Josh Sortelli</a>):</blockquote>